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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: PPP
To: Mark Ibell <marki@ihug.co.nz>, Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net>
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In addintion to the man pages there is a tutorial for this on
www.freebsd.org under documentation

Rudy


---Mark Ibell <marki@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Doug Jolley wrote:
> > 
> > Could someone please give me an overview of what I need to
> > do to connect my FreeBSD box via PPP to my ISP.  I alrady
> > have networking/tcpip setup.  Thanks for any input.
> > 
> >      ... doug
> >
_____________________________________________________________________
> > Doug Jolley    mailto://doug@bigwheel.net    
http://www.bigwheel.net
> >          Don't bogart that file, my friend.  Net it over to me.
> >
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> 
> First decide whether you want to use kernel or user ppp; started
> via pppd or ppp respectively. Setup of both basically involves
> editting files in '/etc/ppp'. But don't forget '/etc/resolv.conf'.
> I feel kernel ppp is easier to set up but offers less flexibility
> than user ppp. Reading the man pages pppd(8) and/or ppp(8) should
> suffice. If you still have further questions don't hesitate to
> ask.
> 
> Go to it lad,
> 
>   Mark
> 

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